Lead Data Engineer

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

General Responsibilities:

The Lead Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing data infrastructure to ensure reliable pipelines, scalable architecture, and high-quality data for analytics and business needs. The role includes leading a team of data engineers, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and implementing best practices in data transformation, validation, governance, and cloud-based solutions.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Define and enforce data engineering standards, coding practices, and architectural guidelines.
• Partner with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Design and maintain high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines and workflows.
• Build and optimize data lake, data warehouse, and streaming data solutions.
• Ensure systems support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Develop data transformation and preparation processes to deliver clean, reliable, analytics-ready datasets.
• Implement validation, anomaly detection, and automated quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Define and execute data remediation strategies to resolve issues with minimal business disruption.
• Implement and manage cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Apply modern frameworks (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Airflow, DBT) for efficient data processing.
• Oversee data modeling, schema design, and database optimization (SQL/NoSQL).
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and availability of data across platforms.
• Implement governance, lineage, validation frameworks, and security best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize pipelines to meet SLAs and performance benchmarks.
• Stay current with emerging data engineering and analytics technologies.
• Recommend improvements to systems, tools, and processes to enhance scalability, reliability, and quality.
• Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time

• Minimum Qualifications: Total Data Engineering experience - 7- 8yrs and above
• Skilled in Python (atleast 4/5 rating), SQL (atleast 3/5 rating)
• Working or has experience working on modern data cloud platforms (Databricks/Snowflake)
• With exposure to cloud services (preferably Azure or AWS)
• Wiling to work on a hybrid work set up in BGC Taguig

NCS Philippines, in partnership with Globe and part of the NCS Group, a leading Asia-Pacific technology services firm and subsidiary of the Singtel Group, is a workplace where people and innovation come together to create meaningful impact. Employees at NCS Philippines work on a wide range of projects across digital, data, cloud, platforms, and cybersecurity, supporting enterprises and government agencies in solving real-world challenges. With access to NCS’ regional network of over 15,000 professionals across 55 specialisations, teams gain valuable exposure to global best practices while contributing to local impact. The company fosters a culture rooted in collaboration, continuous learning, and growth. Employees are empowered to expand their capabilities, explore emerging technologies, and build solutions that go beyond technical delivery – creating tangible value for clients and communities. Through strong partnerships, a diverse talent base, and opportunities for regional collaboration, NCS Philippines enables their people to grow their careers while being part of something bigger: advancing communities through technology and shaping the future of digital innovation.